Ultrafast Science, Volume. 4, Issue 1, 0076(2024)

Broadband Coherent Raman Scattering Spectroscopy at 50,000,000 Spectra per Second

Takuma Nakamura, Kazuki Hashimoto, and Takuro Ideguchi*
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  • Institute for Photon Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
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    Raman scattering spectroscopy is widely used as an analytical technique in various fields, but its measurement process tends to be slow due to the low scattering cross-section. In the last decade, various broadband coherent Raman scattering spectroscopy techniques have been developed to address this limitation, achieving a measurement rate of 500 kSpectra/s. Here, we present a substantially increased measurement rate of 50 MSpectra/s, which is 100 times higher than the previous state-of-the-art, by developing time-stretch coherent Raman scattering spectroscopy. Our newly developed system, based on a mode-locked Yb fiber laser, enables highly efficient broadband excitation of molecular vibrations via impulsive stimulated Raman scattering with an ultrashort femtosecond pulse and sensitive time-stretch detection with a picosecond probe pulse at a high repetition rate of the laser. As a proof-of-concept demonstration, we measure broadband coherent Stokes Raman scattering spectra of organic compounds covering the molecular fingerprint region from 200 to 1,200 cm-1. This high-speed broadband vibrational spectroscopy technique holds promise for unprecedented measurements of sub-microsecond dynamics of irreversible phenomena and extremely high-throughput measurements.

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    Takuma Nakamura, Kazuki Hashimoto, Takuro Ideguchi. Broadband Coherent Raman Scattering Spectroscopy at 50,000,000 Spectra per Second[J]. Ultrafast Science, 2024, 4(1): 0076

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Feb. 21, 2024

    Accepted: Sep. 24, 2024

    Published Online: Dec. 13, 2024

    The Author Email: Ideguchi Takuro (ideguchi@ipst.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp)

    DOI:10.34133/ultrafastscience.0076

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